JUST NBC THE WHITEWASH —  NBC ON DEATH OF PRO-COMMUNIST ACTIVIST TOM HAYDEN: ‘Enduring Voice for Progressives:’

In 1997, [David] Horowitz wrote:

[Hayden] came back from Hanoi proclaiming he had seen “rice roots democracy at work.” According to people who were present at the time, including Sol Stern, later an aide to Manhattan Borough President Andrew Stein, Hayden offered tips on conducting psychological warfare against the U.S. He arranged trips to Hanoi for Americans perceived as friendly to the Communists and blocked entry to those seen as unfriendly, like the sociologist Christopher Jencks. He attacked as “propaganda” stories of torture and labeled American POWs returning home with such stories as “liars.”

Meanwhile, Kathy Shaidle links to an amusing early-’80s SCTV parody of Hayden and Fonda discovering just a few of the many errors of their misbegotten philosophy via Bill Buckley on Firing Line.